I think that snake speak with forked tongue.

Fortune Cookie Economics ?

Has to put in a pitch for her party.. How slimey to use a occasion like this to pitch a commercial on the liberals.

Actually she said “BC has a record of fiscal prudence and in short is close to asia” I don’t think she was meaning her party is fiscally prudent and is in close proximity to asia, but I guess you can twist it

No..she said BC is poised to flourish in 2013 and beyond.

that will depend on who wins the election

awwww wasn’t that sweet of her to say that…. actually to say anything.. ohhh yaaa forgot… doesn’t know the meaning of “quiet”

There is no “proven record of fiscal prudence” under the BC Liberals. There’s been a litany of massive cost over-runs, fully equal to, or in excess of, the worst of the ones rung up by the NDP. Canada Place was over budget by more than the Fast-Cats were. And that’s just ONE example.

The Province is further in debt, the public, on average, are also further in debt, and in instance after instance we’re now paying more for government provided services and getting less in those services in return than we were when the Liberals took first took office. Fiscal prudence?

Have we got anything of equivalent value to show for this run up of debt? Or has much of it been simply a case of the Liabilities increasing faster than any of the Assets they were supposed to procure? And how many of those Assets do WE still own? How many have been sold off, and on which we’ll pay endless, and ever increasing, tribute to their new owners to just ‘use’? Fiscal prudence?

And they’re poised to charge us all more again, for still less again, if they manage to make it past the election as government.

To predicate our whole economic future on “the world’s fastest growing markets in Asia”, after years of their denying the ‘Asian meltdown’ in those same markets in the 1990’s was instrumental in the NDP’s demise, is simply laughable.

And a tacit admission that this government hasn’t learned a single thing from the mistakes of its predecessor. That it’s bankrupt of any new ideas to advance the genuine progress and prosperity of the Province and ALL its citizens, and can only repeat again what’s been tried and always failed before. In the name of fiscal prudence, no doubt?

I truly feel sorry for the ‘honest’ BC Liberal supporters. The poor deluded suckers who steadfastly believe their Party is the last great hope against the kind of NDP socialist policies they abhor, are being led down the exact same path TOWARDS those policies by this current mob.

“Fiscal prudence”, they say. Have they EVER stopped for one moment to even consider whether the ‘figures’ actually reflect the ‘facts’? What a ‘balanced Budget’ actually means? And if it means what so many seem to think it does, then how come the Provincial Debt was still INCREASING even when the Liberals were supposed to be ‘balancing’ their Budgets?

It is fitting, perhaps, that the Snake, an animal revered in Oriental cultures, is reviled in Occidental ones. In the West it is symbolic with corruption, dating back to the Bible story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And it was long ago noted that in Oriental cultures successfully corrupting governments was an accepted practice ~ even though it was instrumental in universally leading to those civilisations inevitable decline. Even today it prevents or perverts successors from achieving their full potential. And we have here today a government of snakes.